Mike Macgirvin
Diary and Other Rantings
Beyond Silicon Valley
   
Sunday, Jul 06 2008, 09:52 am
Aug 22, 2003
A convicted hit man got an extra year or so in prison because

A convicted hit man got an extra year or so in prison because he apparently smuggled some sperm out of the place in a cryogenic canister. Seems this is an ongoing problem at the federal prisons. But rather than add time to these guys who still want to sow some oats, why not do something about those porous prison walls? Seems the guards can be bribed to get just about anything in or out. It's common knowledge. That would imply to me a much larger problem than somebody whacking off in a bottle.

Oh, we finally captured Chemical Ali. Alive. Or so they say. No, we really mean it this time... You believe us, don't you?

The other local rock-n-roll superstore was having a private sale to their past good customers. Interestingly enough, that included me - one of their past good customers. They sent me an invitation. So I stopped in and checked it out. (This is the event I mentioned a few days ago). All of my sales reps were there. I know the entire store staff. And of course, I also know a lot of the customers. There's the guy who almost bought a bass guitar from me the other day. Buying a bass guitar. But one thing curdled my blood. My local cartel sales rep gave away my only USA-made guitar franchise. Gave it to my closest competitor, and didn't even have the courtesy to tell me. He was there also, pushing the same guitars that I supposedly had a 20-mile exclusive on; 3.5 miles from my shoppe door. I really don't like doing business with sneaky bastards.

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> Also another major deciding factor is availability of source code.
> It just gives everybody a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that there is
> source code available to the product you are using. It allows everybody
> to improve on the product and fix bugs etc. sooner that the author(s)
> would get the time/chance to.

I think this is one the really BIG reasons for the snowball/onslaught
of Linux and the wealth of stuff available that gets enhanced faster
than the real vendors can keep up.
-- Norman